Marian Gazdik
Founding Partner at G
Marian Gazdik
Founding Partner at G
London, England
Overview
Work Experience
Founding Partner
2021 - Current
G-Force is a pre/seed VC investing globally in mission-driven climate-tech startups that help reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. It helps startups with cash investment, establishing commercial pilots and getting early customers, finding product-market fit, identifying non-equity financing sources, establishing strategic partnerships, securing media coverage, introductions to top VCs and strategic investors for follow-on funding rounds.
Investor
2022
Materials Nexus is using AI to discover and develop the next generation of new materials which are less rare, cheaper to produce and have improved sustainability characteristics. Rare earth and precious materials are required for many products associated with the energy transition ranging from batteries, electric motors, wind turbine rotors and much of consumer electronics. But many of these materials are increasing in price associated with increased demand which is slowing the transition.
Board Member & Investor
2023
Solivus is on a mission to simplify the decarbonisation of the built environment with lightweight solar technologies and help businesses reduce their climate impact, have more energy security and reduce energy their bills.
Investor
2024
Brightly operates at the intersection of food insecurity and climate change. They work with food rescue organisations to create evergreen funding through the creation of high integrity carbon offset credits, and with corporate buyers seeking to achieve net zero goals.
Investor
2017
GA Drilling provides scalable, modular solutions to zero-carbon emission energy production. Their flagship solution is contactless plasma that dramatically reduces drilling cost for the geo-thermal energy industry.
Investor
2024
Tattva is developing a new bioengineered system of construction that is fundamentally based on the biological process of photosynthesis. The system aims to fulfil and outperform current standards of building construction but in the process sequester carbon dioxide.
Investor
2024
Synthetic biology and AI platform for discovery and optimisation of next-generation microorganisms for scalable and industry-ready precision fermentation.
Investor
2023
Ki Hydrogen uses biomass electrolysis technology to produce green hydrogen from biomass waste, which has been demonstrated to reduce the energy required by up to 75%. They are on the mission to clean up the fossil fuel-intensive hydrogen production process through an innovative electrolysis process. In doing so, they aim to mitigate 100 million tonnes of CO2e every year.
Investor
2023
Most corporations struggle to understand their carbon footprint, especially when it comes to scope three emissions, not to mentioned the impact of their supply chains. ESG360.io allows business leaders to better plan strategically, see further down the road, assess and mitigate physical and transition risks, and make informed, proactive short-term business decisions.
Investor
2022
One third of all forests that our planet lost in the last 20 years, were lost due to forest fires. Quiron monitors and analyses satellites images of forests and then identifies threats before they happen. Quiron's artificial intelligence engine predicts forest fires (for up to ten days with a precision of ten by then meters), monitors forest health, does soil mapping, strategically prospects new areas and monitors harvesting or deforestation. They help decrease losses and increase gains with predictive analytics.
Education
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The Unlikely Journey From a Feature to a Globally Recognized Product Used by 500,000 Conferences
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The only networking rule you’ll ever need to remember
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